Atlas and Fontaine

[Chomp]

Are Atlas and Fontaine the same people? it seems that way in bioshock but then in burial at sea you see the real atlas, which makes you think it's two different people, was there a real atlas who then died and got his identity stolen by fontaine? or was atlas never real and in burial at sea it's just more retconning.

[OKMB]

Publicado originalmente por Mr McSuave:

Publicado originalmente por Delta:

Playing through BioShock 1 will help with this
POTENTIAL SPOLIERS
In BioShock 1, Fontaine states that he was multiple people, at multiple times. He was once a chinese man living in Rapture, and then he was Atlas, and then he was Fontaine again. Adam can change a mans apperance, his voice and everything about him. If you haven't played BS 1, I'd recommend you do. Clears up any problems with BAS:EP 2.

The use of Adam has nothing to do with Fontaine's appearance. He just adopted a new accent and wore a wig and appropriate clothes to become Atlas.

Publicado originalmente por E-Mc73:

Fontaine was a fisherman that Frank killed and stole the identity of on the way to rapture. Atlas was a personna that Frank then undertook, and faked the death of his Fontaine personality.

Source: The book

Basically, the guy who talks to us in the game goes by the name of Frank Fontaine and Atlas, but his real name is unknown.

According to the wiki, which sources it from the book, Fontaine was born with the name Frank, but his surname was unknown.

Adam can change how people look. For better or for worse. I'm not kidding, look it up.

[Oberon]

Publicado originalmente por Delta:

Publicado originalmente por Mr McSuave:

The use of Adam has nothing to do with Fontaine's appearance. He just adopted a new accent and wore a wig and appropriate clothes to become Atlas.


According to the wiki, which sources it from the book, Fontaine was born with the name Frank, but his surname was unknown.

Adam can change how people look. For better or for worse. I'm not kidding, look it up.

You find his room full of make-up kits and wigs...

[RegionalDialect]

Publicado originalmente por Delta:

Publicado originalmente por Mr McSuave:

The use of Adam has nothing to do with Fontaine's appearance. He just adopted a new accent and wore a wig and appropriate clothes to become Atlas.


According to the wiki, which sources it from the book, Fontaine was born with the name Frank, but his surname was unknown.

Adam can change how people look. For better or for worse. I'm not kidding, look it up.

Yes, I know, but I'm just saying that has nothing to do with Fontaine becoming Atlas.

[Commissar Red]

Publicado originalmente por Delta:

Publicado originalmente por Mr McSuave:

The use of Adam has nothing to do with Fontaine's appearance. He just adopted a new accent and wore a wig and appropriate clothes to become Atlas.


According to the wiki, which sources it from the book, Fontaine was born with the name Frank, but his surname was unknown.

Adam can change how people look. For better or for worse. I'm not kidding, look it up.

Yea except he never spliced ever, until the end of Bio1. And he had mutliple identities before the whole adam thing. I always thought he went with regular plastic surgery and/or disguises and BaS2 pretty much seems to confirm that.

[Bellomy]

Yea except he never spliced ever, until the end of Bio1

That seems to pose a problem. I always thought that the reason Jack was not a splicer was because he was only using plasmids for one day. He sure as heck uses a lot of them.

But if Fontaine turned into Monster-Fontaine at the end of Bio1 after only a few hours of splicing, why hasn't Jack turned into something like that?

[Bellomy]

Also: Adam changes your appearance, but generally in really extreme ways, like splicers or Slate in Infinite. It doesn't seem to change you into a normal looking guy with different hair.

[Commissar Red]

Yes adam can change your appearance normaly (think about Steinman's work and the anti-bald tonic commercials from bio1). However abusing it on the long run plus it's withdrawl affects turn you into a freaky splicers. And Fontaine used a damn lot on himself, more then any person in rapture has consumed normaly it seems. Jack either didn't consume enough to mutate as the regular splicers did or he (and Tennenbaum) found a cure. That's what I get out of it juding from the good ending (which is the ending I always thought of as the correct one).

[RegionalDialect]

Publicado originalmente por Bellomy:

<i>Yea except he never spliced ever, until the end of Bio1</i>

That seems to pose a problem. I always thought that the reason Jack was not a splicer was because he was only using plasmids for one day. He sure as heck uses a lot of them.

But if Fontaine turned into Monster-Fontaine at the end of Bio1 after only a few hours of splicing, why hasn't Jack turned into something like that?

Because Fontaine injected himself with ridiculous amounts of ADAM, way more than what Jack used.